USSR-2061: new writing contest!

colonelcassad
November 9th, 20:46

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In the framework of information support of the community friends of the USSR-2061. I started a new nauchnoo fiction writing contest on the theme of a brighter future.

On the main

Friends! Community "USSR-2061" is launching a new competition of short stories.
Stories about the future, to which you want to live. About rewards We understand that demand a lot, and will do everything to be worthy reward.




Readers' Choice Award: 40 000 rubles.
I place at the choice of the jury: 40,000 rubles.
II place at the choice of the jury: 20,000 rubles.
III place at the choice of the jury: 15,000 rubles.
Also, the winners will receive a souvenir here are statues.

And, finally, your stories have special plans.

The best stories will be illustrated. The next painting competition we will give it to your stories. Our previous art contest looked like that. If your interested in the story of our artists, then you will have these illustrations have not been done in any of Russian author in the last 30 years.
The best stories will be published in the paper. We have already published a collection, and have no objection to issue a second.

About the jury
to judge the contest are these people here:
Gleb Gusakov aka gleb_gusakov,
Anatoly awas1952 Wasserman
and archy13, as chairman of the organizing committee.

On the timing of
Post story may be from 9 November to 27 December inclusive.

Exactly at 23:59 GMT December 27 reception room closed.

The reader's vote on the short list to begin in February 2016.

About submitting stories
To submit a story, create a topic on our forum. The message body should contain the author's contacts (in the beginning) and the text of the story. Sample - here.
The allowable amount - up to 60,000 characters with spaces (on the counter Word).
The story must be written specifically for the contest.
Post a story can be anywhere, we welcome it. But - only after the filing of the competition and marked "Soviet-2061."
One author may submit no more than 3 stories.
In case of any problems - please contact us at e-mail: art-konkurs@yandex.ru (or directly into Skype: archy13_ and nuclear_carlson).
On the requirements for the stories

competition theme will be the same as last time: the future, to which you want to live.
However, since our first litkonkursa held for three years. Since then, we have learned a lot and learned a lot. We understand that we, the readers do not care paradoxes of hyper or the subtleties of contacts with extraterrestrials or ethical problems of personal immortality. We even sweep of geopolitics is not too exciting.

The interest of the reader just depends on two things: stories that will grab it, and the characters that he can empathize. Therefore, we need not only a fantasy in its usual sense, but the most that either there is a futuristic realism.

So we landed free flight of imagination of the author of the following terms.

In particular, you will not own the photon spaceship.
And for 500 years, people will not live.
And aliens do not come, and will not save all.
And robots will not replace humans entirely.
And global thermonuclear war did not happen.
And consist of one righteous mankind too will not be. At least not in this century. Although it is not a reason to despair.

And yet we do not have an alternate history. 1991, unfortunately, happened. As Mongol invasion 700 years ago. The past can not be undone: to correct only the future, how have the strength and skills.

In addition to the participants was to rely on, we have laid out the setting. Retell it close to the text are not required: most aspects you mention do not have to. But it will help you stay within reality, not dragged into the text anything obviously incredible. So, make your story more believable, and more.

In the case of gross mismatch your story can return for revision or rejected. Therefore, if in doubt about something - ask us. It is best not last night, but at least 2 weeks before the end of the reception.

Participate!



About advertising
The more the author learned about the competition, the more we will have a strong story. So we ask to extend this advertisement as widely as possible.

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Here ya go Kid, the essay question. ;>)

I am inquiring as to whether English language submissions will be accepted.

Link to statutes of contest at link, no functioning at moment.

Marx once wrote that to fight is happiness and to submit is despair.

None Marx, Engels, or pre-Revolution Lenin dwelt on the socialist future because one does not put the cart before the (war) horse.

Lenin was one of a number of speakers at the funeral of Paul Lafargue (Marx's son-in-law). His speech was basically "fight, fight, fight!" (not: build a better, imagine the future we want to see, yadda yadda)

The future I want to live in is the one where we get to fight for keeps. After that..the deluge. Someone once sarcastically suggested that Marx wouldn't personally like living in the communist future (due to his "bourgeosie" habits). Marx shot back "I don't think so either".

Overall my dream for 2061 is 24 hour Red Army flyovers for every city in the world on Karl Marx's birthday.

Marx once wrote that to fight is happiness and to submit is despair.

None Marx, Engels, or pre-Revolution Lenin dwelt on the socialist future because one does not put the cart before the (war) horse.

Lenin was one of a number of speakers at the funeral of Paul Lafargue (Marx's son-in-law). His speech was basically "fight, fight, fight!" (not: build a better, imagine the future we want to see, yadda yadda)

The future I want to live in is the one where we get to fight for keeps. After that..the deluge. Someone once sarcastically suggested that Marx wouldn't personally like living in the communist future (due to his "bourgeosie" habits). Marx shot back "I don't think so either".

Overall my dream for 2061 is 24 hour Red Army flyovers for every city in the world on Karl Marx's birthday.

Think I agree with both you and Marx.

" I do not write cookbooks for chefs of the future."

That does avoid a lot of tricky business. Still, folks like to dream, and while that is frivolous behavior for the professional revolutionary, yet I think there a place for something like this in this entertainment crazed age.
Shit, lots of folks get their news and politics from comedians. It is shit, yet it is as close as they can get.
Waiting for material conditions to drive people to the wall is a sure thing, but it might be a very long wait, the Owners are adept at providing placebos and distractions.(in this digital age that capability might be bottomless) Been thinking off and on that we needed something out in the culture that has the same weight with young folks as Orwell. That fucker has done a lot of damage. A modern day 'What Is To Be Done?' couldn't hurt, or could it?

Idle speculation, don't mind me.

You know the difference between Rakhmetov and America's beloved Johnny Rambo? What Johnny really wanted was to have a good cathartic cry about things. The Golden Horde didn't permit themselves such indulgence (and Rakhmetov was the latter day successor).

You know the difference between Rakhmetov and America's beloved Johnny Rambo? What Johnny really wanted was to have a good cathartic cry about things. The Golden Horde didn't permit themselves such indulgence (and Rakhmetov was the latter day successor).

Sure, but we're not talking about Rakmetov, we're talking about people who read about Rakmetov and may take something away from that. Been known to happen...And in point of development we are closer to Chernyshevsky than we are to Lenin, unfortunately.

Sure, but we're not talking about Rakmetov, we're talking about people who read about Rakmetov and may take something away from that. Been known to happen...And in point of development we are closer to Chernyshevsky than we are to Lenin, unfortunately.

This has gotten me thinking(uh-oh) along a several related veins.

Chervyshevsky's generation went out into the countryside to raise the peasantry only to be met with blank stares, indifference and even hostility. The time was not right for raising the masses, even though he and others were planting seeds in the intellectual class.

History doesn't repeat itself exactly but we seem to be in a similar situation at the moment. A big difference being what's happened in between, we got history, experience, examples to guide us.

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We have talked about matching tactics with objective conditions a long way back. We have more recently spoken of the need for 'rigor' and how more of that might have altered if not prevented the fall of socialism, though it is questionable as to whether that alone might overcome objective conditions. Depends upon how soon applied I guess.

So what are our objective conditions now?

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Anax likened this place to a 'force in being', a term of naval warfare denoting a force which cannot in itself go on the offensive but at the same time cannot be destroyed(unless you fuck up). It's duty is to maintain and await opportunity. And so our toy fleet toots it's horns, shows the flag and drills. (And the goddamn philosophy is part of the drill.)

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A WITBD for the present would be a good thing to have out there.
We should note that nothing turned out like Vera's dream. Did that matter to Lenin?
Did Marx read WITBD? It would have bolstered his reluctance to prognosticate. In any case I have a little book in mind that might serve as sort of a template for the sort of work I think is needed. The work we want would be nothing like it yet would be indebted to it. That book is "In Watermelon Sugar' by Richard Brautigan. It is purely hippie shit Kid, you'll hate it.(perhaps as much as I hate philosophy...) And yet...there is a kernel there, I am very serious. You should read it Kid, 167 pages, reread it last night in less than 2 hours.